[issue34414] Absolute imports conflict with local files

2018-08-17 Thread Jonathan Hadida
Jonathan Hadida added the comment: With regards to "This has nothing to do with absolute imports at all.", I would like to point out that the "import math" statement that I am complaining about IS WITHIN THE NUMPY MODULE. So it seems very related to this bug.

[issue34414] Absolute imports conflict with local files

2018-08-17 Thread Jonathan Hadida
Jonathan Hadida added the comment: Thanks again for your reply, I really appreciate your time. Every language I know has reserved keywords, and a restricted syntax. Nothing to complain about there. Banning the use of tabs (PEP8) is pretty odd; but restricting file-names is just a whole new

[issue34414] Absolute imports conflict with local files

2018-08-16 Thread Jonathan Hadida
Jonathan Hadida added the comment: Thank you for your quick reply. How can this be expected behaviour? Could I please kindly ask you to point to an documented explanation, specifically for why the folder is PREpended to sys.path (put before), instead of being APpended (put after). The fact

[issue34414] Absolute imports conflict with local files

2018-08-16 Thread Jonathan Hadida
New submission from Jonathan Hadida : This submission follows a post on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/q/51878397/472610 I have reproduced the unexpected behaviour with multiple python versions, either with a Homebrew install, or using Anaconda/Miniconda. Note that comments to the